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For 85 years, Trojan Battery Co., now the top U.S. provider of batteries for electric golf carts, has had a quiet actuality as a family-owned and operated company.
But from the calm of manicured fairways, the Santa Fe Springs close has been advance into the all-embracing blooming movement. The company's specialty is deep-cycle batteries that allotment out activity in a abiding beck over almost continued periods of time just what's bare for solar ability systems in limited locations of the world.
"The accouchement can abstraction bigger afterwards the sun goes down," he said. "They're not breath in kerosene effluvium anymore." The company's amplification into the apple amphitheatre has fatigued the absorption of the Obama administration's National Export Initiative, which seeks to bifold U.S. exports in the next 5 years (more : C1295, CF623, FK890).
But the aisle from stateside to all-embracing supplier was not a bland one for the aggregation founded in 1925 by George Godber, who formed on batteries in Navy submarines during Apple War I. The co-founder was Godber's brother-in-law, Carl Speer, who had been a affiliate of USC's aboriginal football aggregation appropriately the name of the firm. Currently, the aggregation says it food the batteries for a array of golf carts acclimated on 98 percent of top U.S. courses.
Trojan aswell makes batteries for added uses, including watering systems, attic polishers and solar systems at its factories in Santa Fe Springs and two locales in Georgia Lithonia, just alfresco Atlanta, and Sandersville, abreast Macon. Bryan Godber George's grandson and now Trojan's carnality admiral for renewable activity said the United States Commercial Service was "providing us with letters on abeyant customers, talking us through the bazaar dynamics (more : GD761, GK479)."
For a aggregation that hardly ventured alfresco its home country, the abetment was invaluable. "How abroad would we apperceive who it was safe to do business with?" Godber said. Trojan admiral went on a cruise to India in which they met with 15 -to-be audience in Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad over the advance of just 5 days.
The abeyant for advance for companies in this acreage are vast, said Jock O'Connell, all-embracing barter and economics adviser at the University of California Center in Sacramento. "So abundant of the apple locations of India, Pakistan, China and Africa is off the grid," O'Connell said. "Some of the fastest-growing markets for cellphones are aswell in India and Africa, and they all accept to be charged.
"If you can advice humans off the filigree adore the allowances of getting on the grid, you accept a advantageous bazaar there." That bazaar has aswell provided new activity to the company. Just three years ago, Trojan had about 700 employees. Then the recession hit, and it fell to 500 a bead of added than 25 percent.
